Teacher Residency Programs

Gain Direct Classroom Experience - and Finish Your Master's Degree in Just Over a Year

The Graduate School of Education collaborates with a number of schools and institutions to offer high-quality classroom residency experiences for students who wish to earn a degree and teaching license through working directly in a classroom. Programs are full-time and can be completed in approximately one year.

Collaborative Internship Programs

Spend an exciting year actively participating in school life in one of seven independent or four public schools in Massachusetts and Maine, earning an Initial teaching license and a Master of Education degree in either Early Childhood (PreK-2), Elementary (1-6), Middle School (5-8), High School (8-12), or Special Education (Moderate Disabilities PreK-8 or 5-12 or Severe Disabilities). Learn more about this exciting experiential opportunity.

Elementary Education Urban Initiative (EEUI)

In this program, offered in collaboration
with a participating urban school district, you take courses and spend
an internship year at a school, finishing with a Master's degree, Initial
licensure in Elementary Education (1-6), and preparation to take the
Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure in English as a Second
Language (ESL).

Urban Teacher Center

Lesley University partners with the Urban Teacher Center to offer two intensive residency programs in either Washington, D.C., or Baltimore City, Maryland, leading to a Master of Education degree and Initial teaching licenses:

PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL INITIATIVE

The Partnership School Initiative is a design research partnership between Lesley University and the Cambridge Public Schools. Centering on a collaboration between Lesley's School of Education and the K-8 Kennedy-Longfellow School in East Cambridge, the project's goal is to broaden, deepen, and increase student learning at the Kennedy-Longfellow by fully integrating technology tools and resources into the school's curriculum and instruction.

Over a three-year period, educators at Lesley and the Kennedy-Longfellow will collaboratively design and implement technology-rich curricula and pedagogies that fully differentiate instruction while strengthening the bonds between students, the school, families, and the community. The Lesley School of Education, the Kennedy-Longfellow School, and the Cambridge Public Schools share a common commitment to equity, diversity, and inquiry and imagination as foundations for learning. Lessons learned from the project will be shared with other schools, districts, and the community of educational scholars and researchers.

The project is funded by a philanthropic gift from Albert E. and Katharine W. Merck. Read more »

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"Residency program tries to solve problem of teacher burnout," an article on the Urban Teacher Center's successes in training effective teachers to work in high-need districts, ran in the August 17, 2014, Baltimore Sun. Read the article »

Students Learn How to Teach by Teaching

The Collaborative Program immerses students in a partnership school and classroom setting for a full year, combining experience with advanced study to produce exceptionally well prepared educators.